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From: LeliaLoban@aol.com
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 19:40:54 EDT
Subject: Re: 1897 Evette-Schaeffer contrabass
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comMichael Grogg wrote,
>Since you brought up the Beltane, here is a cute one I had stashed in a dusty directory;
Enjoy,>Witch/Mayday humor.
>Lady Martha of the Stewart Clan's Beltane Planner....>
I LOVE it!
As for the Beltane fire, according to tradition, we're supposed to burn up
some things we don't want or use any more, to symbolize sending the past up
in smoke and making a fresh start (springtime, new growth and all that).Anyone for tossing in programs from recitals that didn't go according to plan?
How about a witches' dozen of wall-tested reeds?
Broken corks?
Dead pads? (Yeah, smoldering leather pads would stink, but not as bad as the
traditional sacrifices, about which maybe the less said the better....)May your notes never crack,
Lelia
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: timjt@awod.com (Timothy J. Tikker)
Subject: Re: [Contra digest]
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comRoger's emotional response to being in the same room with a rosewood
contrabass clarinet and a contrabassoon reminds me of the time I was at a
concert at Radio France Studio 104 in Paris in December 1984. The Paris
Conservatoire Orchestra did a program including Edgard Varese's Arcana.The orchestra for this work is huge. The entire perimeter of the band is
encircled with percussionists, all furiously busy. But among the woodwinds
were a baritone oboe, Bb contrabass clarinet (probably a paperclip -- I
forget),and two French contrabassoons! Seeing those contrabassoon bells
in the air was really something! There were also 2 tubas, and of course 8
French horns... but for me the exotic woodwinds stole the show.The performance was superb, BTW -- I clapped so hard afterwards I thought
my hands were going to bleed!- Timothy Tikker
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:44:18 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Today's bass flute FS...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comHere's today's bass flute for sale, an Artley starting at $2899 (a bit high
for the *starting* bid, if you ask me...):
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=98793965A (purported, anyway) soprano sax actually made by A. Sax, starting at
$4500 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=98410135A real curiosity here, which looks like a trumpet with a bent leadpipe and
a bass clarinet bell soldered on where the normal bell would be,
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=99087423Enjoy!
Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 14:51:30 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: Sub Pedal
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>Hi there to whomever is reading this...
>I'm a non-tuba expert band director, and have students who are contra bass
>maniacs (Bari saxes and tuba).
>We read this with glee...but we wonder...what's a "sub pedal" ? We know what
>a pedal is, but niether Harvard nor Oxford have a definition of sub-pedal
>(in reference to the BBBb tuba...)
>Sounds like we would like to experience that sound!!!A sub pedal? Isn't that the thing you step on to stop the submarine? ;-)
Seriously, I understand that skilled tuba players can play pitches below
the actual pedal tones of their instrument. Perhaps one of our resident
tuba players would care to elucidate?Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 15:03:12 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Contrabass clarinet FS...
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comHi,
Looks like Dillon music somehow acquired a Leblanc 340 (curved BBb
contrabass clarinet, range to low C), and has put it up for auction. See
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=99289288While we're at it, there's also an Emerson alto flute, current bid $125, at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=99218577Enjoy!
Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 15:35:45 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Anyone interested in a vintage Bass Sax?
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comHi again,
I've received an inquiry as to whether anyone is interested in a historic
bass sax. So far, I have no other details: I suppose it is a general
inquiry from someone trying to decide if they're going to put their horn on
the market or not.Feel free to let me know,
Grant
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